Science October 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM

Emily St. John Mandel: ‘I don’t want to write something relentlessly bleak’

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The science-fiction novelist talks to Alison Flood about her latest book Exit Party, a tale of parallel worlds that is the October read for the New Scientist Book Club

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